there really, REALLY has to be a better failure mode engineered into hood struts. i mean can't they be made to change color or be really noisy or shoot out sparks when they're about to fail?

opened up the hood to swap out a battery terminal (since the original corroded itself OFF of the positive). just as i'm tightening down the terminal, BAM! hood latch straight to the noggin. talk about shock and awe. surprised it didn't break skin...


guess what my next purchase is

 

4 foot wooden pole? I've had it happen to me too on my 4th g, I just hold it up with my penor. Jk I use a snow brush to hold it up if its not staying up, so it becomes my year round snow brush.

 

10 char

 

my 3rd gen's hood destroyed my digital multimeter a few years back.

damn hood fell on it when i went inside to get some tools...

 

Don't trust them...

 

I just replace them with new.

 

^^ hey wait dont..dont you sell those

 

This is so funny. This thread pops up from time to time. People spend thousands making their cars go a little faster or look a little better or spend thousands on stereo equipment with amps and subwoofers and whatnot. Then they don't want to fork over a measley fifty bucks for a pair of hood struts that will probably be that last ones they have to buy!!!!

 

I don't even trust the new ones...One good puff of wind and......

 

I'm too cheap to buy new ones

I think I posted this in a couple other threads but I'll post it again so more people can see it.

 

takes one heck of a large amount of wind to compress the hood shut on a new set.

 

Well yeah i'm sure it would,but why spend $50 bucks when putting the little prop in there takes a whole 3 1/2 seconds...It is just not worth the $$ to me...

Besides that everytime i try to buy something from your site useing paypal,it wants me to use a echeck...When i have plenty of $$ in the p/p acct.

 

easier to hold up the hood.
I like them when they work, less labor than a hood prop

 

Edited my post..Any thoughts on the second part???

 

hmm... first time I've heard of it.

 

How long do these things last?

 

I'm all about using a baseball bat as a prop. It has saved my nogin a few thumpins.

 

well mine were original...at least the replacements have a lifetime warranty on them

 

I am still planning to make me a set of 4 inch PCV pipe (3/4 dia). Cut a grove along the side and insert them in to the old hood struts. It's a suggestion from someone on the net in earlier post.

 

I repeat my above post you cheap fockers!!!!

 

 

Well the real question should be how often to replace them for preventative maintenace. I don't recall the FSM having this info. Also I'd bet it depands on your weather conditions and how often you use ur hood up, to really determine the answer to that. Once a year? Once every 2?

 

I went 2 years on the Originals from 92 and they would only start to slip in the extreme cold.
of course the ones on my VE5 were shot and started foaming at me so I knew those were gone fer shure

 

did they have rabies???

 

WHAT?!?! 2 years?!?! wow...so i guess almost 16 years should be considered better than average...r u certain the ones on the 92 were originals? 2 years seems obscenely short for OEM

 

nono, I meant I had the car 2 years (03-05) and they were still original.

I can't take pics of them foaming. the car is gone now, masa has it

 

mine are 14 years old and still struttin'

mine fell last night while i was trying to fix my spark plug dilemma, because IMMEDIATELY after i put the "new'' plugs in, it started raining and who can go to work the next morning with Fawked plugs? Not i. Nut yeah, i only put the hood up liek halfway so rain wouldnt get into my plug holes, and i went to the drivers side for something inside the car, and i heard the hood fell...landed on my coilpacks, but no damage.

 

just ordered some off ebay- 29 shipped.. I looked at mines, they are oem, and she is a 93, so 13~~~ years give or take, not bad. i say average is about 10-15 years depending how many regular oil changes and or high strung young maxima modders open thier hoods. ex intake install or maxima meets

 

I just bought new hood struts for the 944. Cost me a whole $26 bucks. Worth every penny.

 

oooh... a new mod!! why from a 944? more travel? stronger? aesthetics?

 

I think hes saying he bought some for his 944

 

lol, well, the 944 ones belong on a 944... It would have been a bit more clear had my sig posted. But yeah, one of my other cars is a 944 and I was tired of busting my head.

 

No, he bought them FOR his Porsche, that he OWNS. (I think anyways, thats what I gather from his post)

 

:cookie I wonder my sig didn't post the 1st time, but did the 2nd? Strange.

 

That 944 is pretty sweet, eh?

 

o....

i'll go back to my room now....DOH!

 

hrmmm i just installed some healights bulbs and my struts are stalking me!!! when i am not looking it creeps down and stops and the i push it up. Again it goes down slowly. Had to use my old noggin' to prop the hood, not bad since i am 5'11'' and have long arms to work i with.

 

Its a good time. Strange thing Is that I've got less money and time into it than the Max. I just wish it had come along first...

 

I gues my struts must be extra special then, cause they have lasted 19 years and a few months, and still tickin. Also my hood struts come with a plastic safety bar attached to them, so that when they do fail, you can prop the hood up on that one.

 

unless you bought the car new, someone added that bar later on.
I've seen them in the store before, they're for people to cheap to buy hood struts